Cannot import required library (Repost after multiple attempts at workarounds)

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Describe the bug

To Reproduce pip install simpletransformers or ipython from transformers import cached_path

Expected behavior Install would complete and library would be functional

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Linux Ubuntu 22.10 Laptop - CPU only

• transformers version: 4.29.1
• Platform: Linux-5.19.0-41-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.36
• Python version: 3.11.3
• Huggingface_hub version: 0.14.1
• Safetensors version: not installed
• PyTorch version (GPU?): 2.0.1 (False)
• Tensorflow version (GPU?): not installed (NA)
• Flax version (CPU?/GPU?/TPU?): not installed (NA)
• Jax version: not installed
• JaxLib version: not installed
• Using GPU in script?: n

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Not being able to import this library throws a wrench in pretty much everything downstream, including in the model.py. It eventually prevents to properly load trained saved model. Huggingface says it's a simpletransformers issue. Thanks!!

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This is a bug because cached_path utility is not used any longer by transformers. It has been replaced by the huggingface_hub library. Can one dev please include this in upcoming patch? Thank you.

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Workaround is to install 'cached-path' through pip or other means and to replace "from transformers import cached_path" with "from cached_path import cached_path"